Twentieth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society

Abstract

The experience in an Argentinian municipality in the elaboration and development of a response plan to climate change with its components adaptation and mitigation, is presented. This plan will depend on the process governance in which the sectors priorities identification and the mapping of the actors in the territory are the beginning of the framework construction of commitment and participation. However, public actors, especially the municipality, should play a leading role as the closest administrative political unit. The complexity in the territory conformation, with its unique characteristics as a productive center and energy supply node and its environmental value enhanced by tourism, its proximity to medium-scale cities with a strategic positioning as a node for the transfer of products and raw materials to regional and global level, show the need to articulate mechanisms that promote the proactive participation of its different social actors. The actors map and the analysis of its components (role, expectations, relationships with other sectors, power of influence, etc.) becomes the starting point to design a governance proposal in which the instances are defined as modes and action´s participation. For Tornquist county, the sectors with the most direct links are: energy, tourism, agricultural, NGOs, and education. This work shows the articulation of an action plan from the diagnosis development of the threats, vulnerabilities; opportunities, capacities, and barriers that allow the elaboration of a actors map and a governance proposal for a climate change mitigation and adaptation planning.

Presenters

Mariana González
Docente Investigador, Grupo de Estudio de Ingenieria Ambiental, Universidad Technologica Nacional - Facultad Regional Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nicolás Murgic
Student, Engineer, UTN FRBB, Buenos Aires, Argentina